This informative and entertaining computer program allows the
user to rotate his viewpoint of the surface of Mars and to flood the Northern
Plains in order to simulate a Boreal Ocean. Mars may have had such an ocean in
its remote past and, if the planet is ever terraformed, it may return in the
future.

Written by Catalin Vasile of the Polytechnic University of
Bucharest, Romania, under the guidance of Viorel Badescu.

Download and user instructions in the email below...

22.05.2001

Hello Richard, Hello Martyn,

As a gift for you, Mars lovers, you'll find as attached file an archive
containing a number of files related to a nice program prepared by my
student Catalin Vasile. This program is able to display the surface of
Mars and its properties: albedo, topography and thermal inertia, at
your choice. Also, for Richard and his JBIS ms, there is a possibility to
see how the Mars Boreal ocean is growing. Below you'll find some
instructions.

Q - The program asks for a DLL
A - Try to find that particular DLL and copy it where you unzipped the program.
(the DLLs usually resides in WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder)

Q - I only see green lines. What's wrong??
A - When you start the program, you view the planet from it's centre.
Zoom out a little bit (using PgDn).

Q - It runs so sloooooowly...
A - Try to enable hardware acceleration by editing mars.ini and setting
use_hardware=1
If it doesn't work, you have to get an OpenGL driver for your
video adapter
(check your video card provider web page)